A Swedish research institute that tracks illegal arms and narcotics trade has established the world's first Internet-based information clearinghouse to help stop humanitarian and peacekeeping organizations from hiring air cargo carriers suspected of trafficking illicit goods.

Last year, the U.S. security contractor Dyncorp hired a South Africa-based air transport company, Aerolift, to transport African peacekeepers and relief supplies to Somalia in defense of the country's U.S.-backed transitional government.